If you ever find yourself on a plane and just want some great mind poiso-- I mean reading material about startups, entrepreneurship, product management, and so on -- you should download this and read it. It's a great list of stuff.
- YC's Startup Library
- All of Paul Graham's essays (must read for any startup founder)
- Selected Wired articles about startups (The New Boom, The Long Tail)
- The story of Ars Digita by Philip Greenspun
- Creation stories of Google and Yahoo
- Evan Williams's Ten Rules for Web Startups
- and so on...
Big time hat tip to the creator of the PDF, Chirag Chamoli, and as always, Hacker News.
What you read absolutely helps you in your quest to fulfill your dreams and create your own startup. Posterous is living proof. Read and absorb. But then take action. Reading is all well and good, but as Friedrich Engels said: An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Feed your mind, but keep your hands busy.Download the 13 megabyte PDF here.
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